Having seen these, whenever someone accuses my handwriting of being like the scrawlings of a nine-year-old (which happens about once a week), now I can say "No! I have the penmanship of an artist".
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 3:52 PM on April 15, 2008

The entirety of "An Evening Wasted..."? Where's "Oedipus Rex"? "The Elements"? I wait with bated breath...
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 6:43 PM on March 26, 2008

Dammit! Missed the comment by griphus above.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 6:55 PM on March 26, 2008

I always liked Pat & Mat (Czech). Excellent mindless stupidity.

Also, not eastern-bloc, but the favourite cartoon of my youth was probably Ulysses 31 (French/Japanese). I remain scarred to this day.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 5:17 PM on March 13, 2008

I like the way they arranged the big block of links to be in an exaggerated coke bottle shape.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 9:25 PM on March 10, 2008

I never understood the ongoing venom directed at Wow. Murder In My Heart For The Judge, He, and Miller's Blues are all damn good songs. Although my favourite Moby Grape moment is still Someday, from the first album. What a sequence of chords. I may have to steal it.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 8:14 PM on March 7, 2008

Kind of a tangent of a question, but does anyone know why sometimes the 'kbps' reader on my WinAmp will flip like crazy on some mp3s, reading from 160kbps-256kbps?

Because they're variable-rate encoded, to (hopefully) only use the higher rate when it's necessary.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 1:30 PM on January 6, 2008

It's Pronounced "Fronkensteen"!
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 3:04 AM on December 21, 2007

I'm pretty sick of the cowbell thing, but I thought this was amusing
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 5:16 AM on December 20, 2007

if Kyle spent some of that time, energy, focus, and talent learning to play an actual guitar, he'd have developed skills that are also modes of expression and communication, and much less finitely fun than one game. But maybe that's just the old fogey in me.

Have you seen the South park Guitar Hero episode? "Real guitars are for old people"
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 4:40 PM on December 19, 2007

I predict this will be another of those complete genius posts that only attracts about 10 comments.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 5:16 PM on August 1, 2007

So happy that my prediction of few comments was way off the mark, but on another note, what were the dud colours in a typical box? I have far off memories of my sister's Crayola set with the black, red and a few others worn down to the nib, while snot green (warning - may not be actual colour name) stood there majestically in the box, tall as the day it was bought.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 8:08 PM on August 3, 2007

how on earth does that resemble anything a 10 year old could do at home?

I think the reason for the downfall of hair metal lies somewhere in that sentence.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 8:03 PM on August 3, 2007

Analysis puts phone in proximity to O'Reilly home. If you're gonna murder your wife, switch off your phone first, it would seem.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 4:02 AM on July 19, 2007

I'm not normally one for Simpsons quotes, but by any chance is one of the exhibits an anthropomorphic car that says "Hi, I'm an electric car, I can't go very fast or very far, and if you tdrive me, people will think that you're gay"? I wouldn't be that surprised...
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 8:36 PM on March 13, 2007

California
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 8:52 AM on March 4, 2007

And as usual, the Unionist establishment stick their fingers in their ears and go "la la la I can't hear you":

But the Northern Ireland Retired Police Officers Association said Mrs O'Loan had done undeserved damage to the reputation of "many fine officers", and criticised the public manner in which the investigation had been carried out. Ken Maginnis, a former Unionist MP who is now Lord Maginnis of Drumglass - dismissed the report as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 1:29 AM on January 23, 2007

As headlines go, it's no "Argelico Fucks Off To Benfica"
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 8:39 AM on December 9, 2005

This is a little strange , coming from the guy who ripped off the melody of a Coke ad (I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing) for his second single (Shakermaker).
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 2:11 PM on December 8, 2005

Inverted Bovine Femur Cross

I think that name could do with some umlauts.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 12:23 AM on August 19, 2005

The picture at the top of the NYT article reminds me a little of Stryker from X-Men 2, who, if I remember rightly, was a sleazy public official with a hidden agenda.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 4:49 AM on May 2, 2005

Um, I think the off-key metaphor is the book's central argument.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 5:08 AM on April 26, 2005

A similar thing was done years ago, on (UK) channel 4 when they would have an Aussie Rules team take on a Gaelic Football team.

It's an annual event now.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 5:18 AM on March 17, 2005

Well there's (or was) already one in Waterford, Ireland called the "Wok Right Inn". Ouch.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 6:02 PM on March 10, 2005

I'd just be pissed if I was Stockhausen and someone told me I wasn't in the comprehensive guide to electronic music.

He's in there, just about. Click on Downtempo, then Musique Concrete. He's the fourth sample.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 2:36 AM on February 16, 2005

For Winamp 5 users looking for free videos online - go to the Winamp Library -> Streaming Media -> Winamp.com Videos, and take your pick.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 8:44 PM on January 9, 2005

Did anyone see the DeLorean documentary on BBC 4 last night? Think it was a repeat. Turns out the DeLorean was basically a modified Lotus Esprit, and that the first few hundred cars to arrive in the US had to be completely rebuild due to shoddy work by the then inexperienced workforce.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 7:55 AM on January 6, 2005

On my travels in Ireland, I've seen a K-Recipe Fried Chicken, a Mall-Mart, a King Burger, and a supermarket in Waterford called Besco.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 6:21 AM on December 30, 2004

Wow. I never knew pasties had crossed the Atlantic. When folk over here think of pasties, they think of one place.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 6:31 PM on October 18, 2004

The Irish market has been just as nuts lately - house prices have tripled in the last ten years. Irish investors are now buying large quantities of land and property in Britain, the new EU accession countries, hell, just about anywhere, since just about anywhere is cheaper than Ireland.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 5:47 AM on October 8, 2004

Originally, Glastonbury was meant to be their last I think. I'd heard "last Orbital show" advertising for the Oxegen festival in Ireland too.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 2:27 PM on August 1, 2004

It's not even an original idea. The same dead people delivering telegrams thing was in The Bill years ago, except in that case there was only one terminally ill patient, a heroin addict dying of AIDS.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 6:38 PM on November 24, 2002

Piero Umiliani's non gimmicky cult stuff is pretty good too. He did tons of great loungey, Moog driven Air type music 3 decades before Air. Check Kazaa/whatever Lady Magnolia or Cotton Road for starters.
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 12:28 PM on October 8, 2002

Some choice GAA commentary http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~eddiemoroney/
or http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~eddiemoroney/faq.htm to see what it's all about (may make no sense whatsoever to anyone outside Ireland, or outside Tipperary for that matter)
posted to MetaFilter by kersplunk at 5:05 AM on October 8, 2002